County: Mayo Site name: Glebe
Sites and Monuments Record No.: MA120-044 Licence number: 16E0155
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 516171m, N 756333m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.550222, -9.265017
Monitoring of groundworks at a development in Glebe townland, outside Cong village in County Mayo, was carried out on 18/19 April and 30 June 2016. The development consisted of the demolition of rear and side extensions to a dwelling house, the demolition of a shed and the construction of rear and side extensions to the dwelling house, together with the construction of a front porch balcony and a septic tank/percolation area. An impact assessment of the proposed development, which accompanied the planning application, recommended monitoring of groundworks. The assessment was necessary as the development was the location of the site of a cashel (MA120-044), which was referred to by Sir William Wilde in 'Lough Corrib; Its Shores and Islands' (Dublin, 1867) as 'Caher-Mac-Turc'.
The field walking of the site revealed no archaeological features within or in the immediate vicinity of the proposed development. The dwelling on the site was formerly a Rectory, built in 1817, which had undergone a number of alterations in the years since. Nothing uncovered on the site during the monitoring of groundworks pre-dated the construction of the Rectory. There was no evidence of the remains of the cashel. A number of small animal skeletons found in the walled garden, which was partially excavated for the percolation area, were undoubtedly the remains of family pets buried in the garden, a common practice up to recent times. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.
4 Lecka Grove, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
